Recently I had the opportunity to travel for work. I was headed to the cold tundra that was Minnesota in February. I attended a three day software conference in a very nice part of St. Paul Minnesota in a fantastic hotel. The week that lead up the conference was incredibly busy and hectic including the last minute cancellation of baby sitting plans. I barely had to time to keep my head above water at work and pack something resembling a suitably filled suitcase. At the last second I grabbed by project bag that held my Down Pour socks I had planned on redoing and dashed to the airport. I knew they had wooden needles from Joanns that I wouldn’t mind losing to a zealous TSA agent.
Once at the airport and safely through security where my knitting was not deemed a security threat, I pulled out my project and pattern only to find that I needed several stitch markers and they were not in my kit. I had needles, yarn and pattern ONLY. Sigh, so these socks had to become cuff down vanilla socks. Not my favorite…but it was better than than no knitting at all for four days.
I made up for my project D’oh by knitting in the posh hotel wrapped in a plush bathrobe with the remote control all to myself! I have to say is that was pretty much heaven to a pregnant knitter after sitting in ballroom conference chairs for 7 hours!
I’ll try to show my total trip progress if I can grab some updated photos this week. Happy Knitting!!
Glad you got pampered in the evenings! Next time, try this trick if you need markers – cut short pieces of yarn and knit them into loops, they will make do as markers.
I have done that before but only when I had contrast yarn. I tend to knit those when they are the same color….especially when the stripes are constantly changing ☺️. Sadly I didn’t even have contrast yarn!
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I actually prefer yarn stitch markers to other stitch markers 🙂
They don’t fly across the room as much, that’s for sure!
That sounds like heaven to me too!
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Thank you!
Yes I agree always travel with my knitting too when I go back home to Switzerland to visit family …wooden needle it is for me…never had a issue…happy knitting
Hope you didn’t lose the needles to the tsa! I also knit socks… doing toe up on magic loop at present